Navigating Place, Gender, and Desire: A Study of Strangers in Bupyeong District, Incheon, South Korea

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Abstract: This thesis explores the current discourse on damunhwa (literally “multiculturalism,” but also describing any non-Korean presence) in a local, everyday context. I specifically examine how a narrow but changing definition of Koreanness has become a justifiable reason for exclusion and hostility against minority bodies in contemporary Korean society. I also look at how minorities in Korean society make sense of this phenomenon. This thesis is composed of two chapters. The first looks at how Korean residents of Bupyeong perceive damunhwa, separated into two sections. The second chapter explores how the Koreanness at the core of Hallyu products such as K-dramas, K-movies, and K-pop can project cultural imperialistic traits onto some groups of minorities in Korea.

Type of resource	text
Publication date	December 8, 2023

Author	Lee, Jiah

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/my741vh8863
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/my741vh8863

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Preferred citation: Lee, J. (2023). Navigating Place, Gender, and Desire: A Study of Strangers in Bupyeong District, Incheon, South Korea. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/my741vh8863. https://doi.org/10.25740/my741vh8863.

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